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Estimated 7,500)00 Men
Disclutrtres Soon
"No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Atee
From First Statesman, March 28, 1831 - ; -
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUl Editor and Publisher
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MacArthur to Tokyo
General MacArthur will be a good one to
boss Hirohito around. But who will boss Mac
Arthur. 1 -
The great MacArthur (his superior talents as
a military leader must be respected) has not
been one to wear a bridle gently. At the be
ginning of the war he assumed something of
an injured air, being openly critical of his lack
of men and materials. It must have been ex
plained to him that the overall strategy was
one of holding in the Pacific and concentrating
on defeat of Hitler, but MacArthur could not
get his eye off himself and his march back
to Corregidor. This strategy has proven wise:
Japan folded, as was anticipated, soon after
Germany's collapse. MacArthur finally got the
tools to work with and handled them expertly
though not without a liberal measure of flam
boyant rhetoric.
How well will MacArthur carry out the gen
eral policy of the allied governments? What
political intelligence does he have for the wise'
redirection of Japanese policy? Critics from the
Philippines accuse him of rigid censorship. Will
he be similarly high-handed in Tokyo?
j While MacArthur is senior in years of mili
tary service and of the highest rank of any
officer in the Pacific, we -can't conceal our
admiration for Admiral Nimitz who took over
a blasted navy right after Pearl Harbor, used
its remnants and accretions so expertly that the
vast 70,000,000 square miles of ocean became
virtually an American lake. It was the navy
that cleared the way so that MacArthur could
get back to the Philippines. Nimitz might make
a better administrator for Japan than Mac-Arthur.
Emperor Myth . ; r H
It's hard for Americans to stomach the guff
broadcast by Domel agency to the people of
Japan. Describing how weeping people gathered
in front of the palace grounds which were,
"quiet beneath dark clouds" the broadcast said
the mob of loyal people are bowed to the very
ground in front of the Miju-Bashi" bridge.
Their tears flow unchecked. Alas! In their
shame how can the people raise their heads?
With the words, 'Forgive us, O Emperor, our
efforts were not enough,' the heads bow lower
and lower as the tears run unchecked. f
This sounds much like propaganda to keep
the millions of Japanese people subservient' to
the emperor and to the bosses of Japan. The
bosses and the emperor are the guilty ones,
who deceived the people and led them to their
ruin. Now the bosses would make it appear that
the people assume responsibility for the colossal
failure and humilitation. Bunk! M l
We sincerely trust that letting the emperor
hold his job doesn't mean that we have this
fraud on the Japanese people. Some one ought
to tell them the truth so they could clean but
the rascals , ! - H ' 1
Death Sentence for Petain
The French have a reputation for being emo
tional and sentimental, but no Gallic emotional
ism marked the verdict of the jury which tried
the venerable Henri Petain, marshal of France.
He was found guilty as charged, with treason
able collaboration with Germany, and sentenced
to death. The court expressed - the hope that
the sentence would not be executed, which
would require extension of clemency from Gen
eral DeGaulle president of the provisional gov
ernment.! At this' distance many were inclined to treat
the old marshal with a degree of mercy. After
all he had not been the arch-culprit of Vichy
that role "was accorded Pierre Laval. But he had
officially proclaimed a new order, a nazi order
for France. He failed to uphold French honor
in the time of crisis. For this public sentiment
in France has condemned him. The jurors -merely
recorded the popular verdict. '
It was probably necessary to condemn Petain
to death. Otherwise the lesser lights of the
Vichy regime would escape their just penalties.
With characteristic nimbleness they would again
get hold of reins of power, conniving for their
personal ends rather than toiling for France's
restoration. A purge is needed to cleanse the
soul "of France. Even if it partakes of the hot
fury of 1793 it should do good. The new France
must stand on sound, clean foundations. To let
the compromising politicians, the fickle col
laborators live in security and in authority
would weaken the base of a new France. Pe
tain's conviction is proof that there is sound
stuff in the heart of La Belle France.
Watch for an increase in the marketing of
beef cattle. There is only one place for the 80
odd million head of cattle on the range and
in the feedlots to go and that is to market. The
war's ending will discourage holding cattle for
speculative profits. Growers will be more in
clined to lighten their investment by moving
stuff to market as fast as it is ready or earlier
if signs of market weakness appear. They do,
not want to! get caught as they were in 1920
when the market dropped out from under them.
Editorial Comment
MUST WE SUBSIDIZE FOREIGN SOCIALISM!
Dorothy Thompson, the one time girl wonder of
American journalism who has gotten a good deal
older Without getting correspondingly wiser in the
years since, contributes as sloppy a piece of think
ing as anyone would ever care to see to the current
discussion of the recent British election.
In a piece printed by the numerous dailies that
use her syndicated column the thrice wed Miss
Thompson warned the United States government
the other day that it must keep on financing Britain
regardless of what it thinks of: 1.; The socialist
government over there, or 2. The prospects of re
payment, which admittedly are not bright, regard
less of what kind of government Britain has.
Said Miss Thompson in effect: If the U. S. starves
British socialism by withholding generous loans
the experiment may fail and the British people
will blame us for it, probably jumping the rest
of the way to communism. International bitterness
will, result The same reasoning applies of course
to Russia, which insists on several billion dollars
worth ofAmerican goods, on the cuff, though we
are still fighting a war and Russia isn't, and though
Rassia has always told her people they already
had a higher living standard than we had. -
According to this reasoning socialism cant stand
on its own pins, but must be subsidized by capital
ism. If it is,' on a lavish enough scale, it can make
good its promise of more abundant life to its peo
ple, whereupon ' our people will note that and
abandon capitalism for the socialism it has made
possible. . " ' " :
Not mentioned by Miss Thompson or anyone else
of this persuasion is the name of the country that
will subsidize us if we go socialistic and all start
living off the government ':: .
It looks to us like there will always have to be
one capitalistic country to subsidize the "comrades"
in this brave new world coming up and maybe,
we'd better be it at least till we can see whether
' the' other fellows are going to be able to feed
themselves. Baker Democrat-Herald.
says a London dis
- Corvallis Gazette-
J. D. WtalU
"British clothes low,
patch. Top or bottom?
Times. , M I !
Since they are British clothes, we'd say bot
tom; if they were French, we'd say top.
Interpreting ;
The War Neivo
By JAMES D. WHITE ! f
Associated Press Staff Writer j
SAN FRANCISCO,! Aug. 15.-(;P)-As usual, the
Japanese are blaming everything but ; themselves
for what has happened to them. j
Practically all Tokyo statements since j the -surrender,
including the emperor's rescript, take the
line that Japan has been defeated by such western
tricks as the atomic bomb and that the only thing
to do now is to rebuild the country by all pulling
together.
Typical is the quavering voice of a Tokyo prop
agandist telling troops to surrender: j I f -
"We do not thiak the way we have thought has
been wrong . . . We have lost, but this is tem
porary." He added that Japan's $ vA 1 1
big mistake was ner xaiiure to '
build up enough resources, and
that this must be amended. No
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mm mere mai 11 nuai nave ueeu
wrong to conquer the world if
Japan could have got away with it.
So Japan is still: "poor but
proud," as before.
The Asa hi Shimbun comes near
est to facing the issue: "What the
Japanese nation is confronted with
is not a negotiated peace but one-,
sided defeat. The Japanese should
fully realize this stark reality and
unite themselves under the guidance of his majesty
in order that they may survive the great trials."
Premier Kantaro Suzuki, in resigning, says
"bloody and tearful life will begin for the people,
beginning today . . . This day has become the j
day that will never, never be forgotten byf the ;
Japanese people." He offers the Japanese, in other)
words, something to remember which to them is
. much bigger than a Pearl Harbor. ; j j r
This is ominous because Suzuki can see ahead
and look back. ! ! - I '
He knows the Japanese people have not been
adequately prepared for the - occupation that is
coming, that they have not been led to expect
or visualize the shock and humiliation which; any
occupation brings. - ... , ;
There may be a wide difference between what
the Japanese people think the peace will mean to
them and what we know it will mean. Consequently,
when occupation comes, many Japanese may regard
its more humiliating aspects as breaches of allied
faith and exceeding what they have been allowed
to understand are the terms of surrender. 1
They are likely to 'regard what the emperor has
to do to carry out surrender terms as violations
of their stipulation ' that his sovereignty not be
impaired. The fact that the allies replied that he
" would have to take orders from the allied com
mander in chief, and that Japan subsequently as'
ted, is unlikely to impress them i very much
because the imperial rescript mentioned xmly the
Potsdam terms and these did not say anything
about the emperor, j :
To the Japanese, the emperor Is still inviolable.
Critics will say that this situation could have
been avoided if the allied terms had insisted; that
the emperor be eliminated. Such criticism is out
of date now, because we have the emperor to deal
with and will deal with him. j . '
Whether you like it or notj if we didn't have
him the military in Japan might be completely out
of hand by now and the whole place in chaos,
which it still can become if the military decide to
use the guns which they still have. I
Hours after the surrender, Japanese planes Were
sUll being shot down as they approached: the
American fleet. ii ' i
General MacArthur, the designated allied su
preme commander, appears to be concerned about
this. His orders to the Japanese have been worded
mildly, and he used ; such expressions as "it is
desired" that the Japanese do so and so rather
than telling them outright to. do it, period. Such
orders are less likely to provoke the unstable
military who now may be seething with indecision
as ta whether to submit, commit hara kari, or keep
- on fighting. . r j i
Meanwhile, it appears a fact that the Japanese
have, by preserving their emperor, preserved the
core of their tradition, and that tradition may be
strengthened with every high; Japanese militarist
who follows the example of war minister Ana ml
and kills himself. " , ! i ! -
This looks formidable now and will require the
most adroit end effective handling if it is not to
be turned against us. ;
' Occupation and disarmament may teach the
Japanese the -falseness of their beliefs. They will
regard it as unjust, certainly at first
After world war I the Germans didn't learn
They didn't want to.
The Japanese don't want to either : h
ft wtmiIi witk Tk IiAMm ataf
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The Last Remaining Target
Tho Literary
Guidcpost j
By W. G. ROGERS
FLIGHT rmOM CHINA, j Baa Ln
Bker, i caU&koratioa whto Jha
8. Potter (MacmUlM; tz M).
Two Chinas, old and new, the
, one at peace and the other at
war, fill this book with fharp
contrasts. j j j
Miss Booker, who has Jived in
the Orient 20 years and been an '
International News Service; cor- i
respondent, recalls on nostalgic'
pages the China that used to be,
or the China she used to know
an impoverished country j with
indubitable advantages for well-to-do,
resident Americans.
Against the ancient idyl she
sets the bleak facts of Japanese,
aggression and war. Potter, her
husband, an "old China hand,"
stayed after she had returned to
the U.S. to look after their -children.
His part of the bookj cov
ers internment in Shanghai and
repatriation on the Gripaholm
when it also brought back; Em
ily Hahn, Carl Mydans and his
novelist wife and Russell Brines
of the AP. I f
It's a fair to middling book. It
won't hurt -you to read it; nor
help you much. Few of us
doubt any -longer that living in
China used to be a junket, or
that the Chinese are suffering,
; or that Japanese are brutal; The
Nipponese robbed bur; expatri
ates, apparently, of everything
except manuscripts, and for ev
ery refugee to return on the
Gripsholm, there has been at
least one book. j 1
There are, however, excellent
' decorations by Peggy Bacon.
TWILIGHT BAE, ky Artkar KtUr
(MaemllhtB; ). I j
His (first and last play this
is defined by the author a an
"escape in four acts." An jsland
republic is warned by strangers
from another planet that Unless
in three days happiness is a
chieved .in our worldjwel shall
all be wiped out to rpakejroom
for better people. Reactionaries,'
liberals and Reds fail ito redeem
us, but a gossip columnist suc
ceeds. Then when, fear of ex
tinction is removed, we 1 lapse
again into quarreling, j . j
Though 1 a neutral j observer
might decide this world was far
from perfect, I would not ex
pect a gossip-columnist govern-
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others to thank: that , their lib
erties have been preserved. They
share in the gain, but they did
not share in the sacrifice. If
wars come to an end it will not
be because of the febrile pro
test of the conscientious objec
tors but to the cohesion of na
tions in a world order backed by
adequate force to suppress ag
gression.
There is another idea that
some of these conscientious ob
jectors have, that the war kills
off great numbers of the most
virile youth, so there should be
, some "seed stock" left to pro
vide leadership for the country.
Of all the presumptuous self
conceit that is about the limit
Tell that one to the marines.
The leadership of the future will
not come from those, who for
this cause hid behind the cloak
of conscientious objection, but to
those who bared their bodies to
meet the enemy in battle and
thank the Lord enough of them
have survived to - provide the
'seed stock for a virile civiliza
tion. '
. I regard objection to partici
pation in war on grounds of
- conscience - as screwy thinking.
This war was waged in a just
cause. And so long as political
gangsters seek to destroy the
principles of human ' freedom
which gives vitality to the hu
man, experiment this country
should be ready to resist by
force. The lives we have sacri
ficed in this war were precious
lives; but they live in the more
precious immortality of victory
over forces of evil. "
Yet, enjoying the fruits of
these sacrifices a handful of
CO's say they will- quit mop
ping up a forest fire because it
will help the war effort!
ment to improve us. But it's
certainly a boost for a section
of the press, and all very ingenious.:
BLOOD DONATIONS CONTINUE
PORTLAND, Aug.il5.-4HFive
west coast Red Cross blood donor
centers will continue to collect
whole blood from O-type donors,
officials said today. All other cen
ters throughout the : nation have
been ordered to close.
Aluminum Co., America
To Begin ReconYersion
InEW YORK; Aug. 15.H)-Alu.
mimm Co. of America, producers
of $2,200,000,000 of war material,
will begin conversion to peace
time production immediately, it
was announced today. j
I Principal reconversion problem,
the . company said, was cancella
tion of all or part of $200,000,000
of war orders on its books, jit
added that considerable amount
of adaption of machinery and re
alignment of manufacturing pro
cedures would be necessary be
cause of smaller peace-time produc
tion runs. J
M. T. Hoy Appointed
Master Fish Warden j
I PORTLAND, Aug. 15.-;P)-M.
T. Hoy has been named master
fish warden by fish warden Arnie
J. Suomela in a reorganization ot
the state department . !
. Hugh C. Mitchell was named
special representative and Irvine
French director of the department
of hatcheries and fish culture.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
t .
"The way I figure it, we& better make hay while the son; shines
we may never get another opportunity to be tneompetent '
They Call Him
for Short
!
ST. PAUL, Aug. lMr"
Seaman Paul Panagiotopou
lous, 21, St Paul, had a good,
time last night celebrating vie-,
tary. He was having such a
good time Police j Lieutenant
Ffank Kennedy said he took
Paul io headquarters for the
night "Whas our name!" asked
Kennedy before releasing Paul
today.
"Seaman Panagiotopoulous,"
-he answered.
"Why don't ou shorten it?"
Kennedy -esked.
"I did.-, said the eailor. "It
used to be Paul Apostlopangio
topoulus." ij-. t
he left headquarters, he
eaid, Tm ao darn glad, this
is
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I WASHINGTON, Aug. 15,-iffVThe release of men iA
the next It to 1 months is the goal of the army, navy and marine
corps demobilization plans as announced today. .. . - -y :. .
-t 'Secretary of War Stimsod said in statement the army Will
revise 119 jmi bj9m f
additional personnel eligible lor
discharge after it was made cer
tain the. Japanese "have accepted
the surrender terms in good faith."
Male personnel are now eligible
for 1 release with 85- points and
W ACs with 44. ' I
The army said it is stepping up
the i demobilization of the. .'.high
point men now eligible ifor dis
charge and 78,000 already in this
country are to be processed
through separation centers not
later than Aug. 31. j ,
! Including the 78,06o, there are
521,000 who have 85 points and
are eligible for release.
Ind actions to Continue
In fairness to the men Overseas,
Stimson said, army inductions
must continue even though at a
reduced rate of 50,000 monthly.
. "In no other way can I we pro
vide men to replace gradually the
soldiers now forming pur occu-f
nation forces and garrisons In Al-1
a ska, Hawaii and the Caribbean,
Stimson said. "In no other way
can the overseas find relief, since
the numbers -are too large to hope
to replace them with volunteers.
Maj. Gen. S. u. Henry,! assistant
chief of staff , in charge! of per
sonnel, disclosed, however, that:
the army is starting a recruiting
drive to enlist 280,000 . volunteers
to serve three-year enlistments.'
Immediate Release j
The ' navy estimated that about
327,000 were eligible for imme
diate release under its new point
system.. . - j
Navy strength on June SO was
3,388,556 officers and men.
The demobilization formula ap
plies to all personnel of the na
val reserve, to inductees, and to
those in the regular navy who are
serving beyond the -expiration of
their enlistment The coastguard
has adopted the same plan.
The navy formula allows one
half point credit for each year-of
age figured to the: nearest birth
day; a half point for each full
month of active duty since Sep
temper 1, 1939, and 10 points for
dependency without regard to
number, of dependents.! Depend
ents are those who receive depen
dency allowances from j the gov
ernment at the time the; plan goes
into effect Men whose wives are
in the armed forces also are en
titled to 10 points.
Critical Scores
- Criucal scores, or minimum
points necessary for release, were
fixed at 44 for enlisted: men, 29
for enlisted WAVES, 49 for male
officers, and 35 for WAVE offi
cers. j
Commanding officers have been
directed to give preference to men
who have been longest at sea or
overseas among those eligible for
discharge. j
The navy said critical scores
would be adjusted downward
whenever military commitments
permitted.
Regardless of critical , scores,
any navy man who has received
one of the higher combat decora
tions of the armed services Is en
titled to release on hisj own re
quest These awards are! the med
al of honor, navy cross,! legion of
merit silver star medal; and dis
tinguished flying cross. I
BOY 'GETS IT IN THE NECK
BECKLEY, W. Va Aug. 1.-JF
George Martin's manner of cele
brating victory over Japan put
him in the hospital today. The 19-year-old
resident of Stickney, W.
Va,' was using an ax to set off
small caliber bullets when a badly
aimed stroke sent a bullet through
his neck. 1
Clothes Production WUl Meet
ivilimt Demand, 4 to 6 Months
By Deseiby Oaeew 'I
NEW YORK, Aug. lS.-iJ-The long-awaited day after the war
when stores will have plenty of suits and shirts, .girdles end sheets
is still four to six months away, industry source aaid today.
"The consuming public should not ne-misied. into the false belief
that the end of the war means
immediate relief from ehortages,"
warned Benjamin H. Namm, presi
dent of the national retail dry
goods association.
Industry spokesmen, stating that
there still were many uncertain
production problems to be worked
out, said this is how the clothing
and domestic situation looks at
present:
Men's wear: '-. -1 f
Suits and overcoats - will con
tinue scarce this fall, but increases
in civilian woolen and worsted
production -now in view will as
sure the. consumer ' of improved
supplies early in 1948.
Shorts will be more: plentiful
from October i on.
White shirts should begin I to
appear as navy requirements are
lessened, and ! important improve
ment is expected in the overall
supply of shirts after Jan. 1. I
Women s wear:
Rayon clothing supplies will im
US Forces May
Be Greeted by
Hritrcd, Fear
ay wnuos-x HAKRIS .
(Formerly Chief df the Associated
Bureau at jShangnai)
-WASHTNGTOrf, Aug. 15-0P)-Japan
anan in the eUeet likely
will greet American occupation
troops with e mixture of hostility,
few and, bewilderment
hirohito iiae iven the great
cornmand" that the invader 'i to
be accepted. Outwardly it will be
a controlled but. sullen populace
that 'Will greet America's occu
pying forces. '
JQur occupation forces will be
among fanatical and emotional
I people The Japanese massea, vie
tuns ot Ultre-nationai propagamn,
are unprepared forj defeat This
failure to face facts will heighten
the shock xt foreign soldiery pa
trolling their streets. -
Cold, stony slience likely will be
the first reaction of; the Japanese
after the Americans go ashore.
That it' may be punctuated by
rash acts of "super-patriots'' out
to take a foreign life and then die
in the name of thef emperor, de
mite the "grand command," must
be-expected. ' -
Seach the world over and likely
no place appearing i more foreign
to the average -American than Ja
pan could be found. The utter
strangeness! will bring difficulties
from the moment of contact:
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-ilIV
. One local grocery atore celebrat
ed the victory holiday today and
yet .'managed to accommodate
its customers at the same time.
'Bread andTolls were placed in
front of ' the' store with this
'-sign: -!j -". ;
Tielp yourself H?ay us later.'
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set
prove somewhat when nylon
released for hosiery, freeing
per. cent of civilian rayon now
aside for stocking manufacture.
curtailment or neavy govern
ment rayon requirements provid
ing greatly improved supplies of
dress and lingerie fabrics will be
reflected at the retail level about
six months after-contracts are can
celled.
Nylon hose are expected ! by
Christmas.
Elasticrted -girdles will not be
plentiful until 194.
Sheets and pillowcases:
Slightly better supplies are ex
pected as-early as September, with
considerable' improvement during
the last three months of the year.
lT.7i ACESfCTES
"WASHINGTON, Aug. T3.-fflV.
Most of Oregon's 177700 federal
employes are workins; f or
agwnciws ihwlurtmg the army and
navy a civil service commission
count revealed ! unen Tslsast todav
Total federal asoploymeut in the
nation was 2IT20M0O.
PORTLAND, Aug, 15,-tfrVNew
airplane tires and tubes will j be
resold to essential users for off-the-road
use, the office of. surplus
property, department of commerce
said today. 4 , 1
Nazi Prisoners
Work in Russia
i
MOSCOW, Aug. 15-)-Edwln
S. Smith, chairman of; the Na
tional Council of American-Soviet
friendship, said today he had .
seen "a great many German pris-'
oners working in Leningrad and
Stalingrad" during a two-months
visit in the Soviet Union.
The Germans are employed in
tractor and metallurgical factories
in Stalingrad, some on skilled
work, and are laboring side by
side with soviet workmen, he said.
The Germans receive the same
wages as soviet workers!, he add
ed, but all money is turned over
to improving the camps' in which
they live. j
In other parts of the Soviet
Union, Germans are working on
road, street and municipal con
struction, Smith said. I
An automatic SOS alarm for
vessels not having a radio oper
ator n constant watch yras intro
duced In 1933.
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bierling - - Others
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